PURPOSEFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purposefulness mean? 

• PURPOSEFULNESS (noun)
  The noun PURPOSEFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of having a definite purpose

  Familiarity information: PURPOSEFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURPOSEFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of having a definite purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

purposefulness; sense of purpose

Hypernyms ("purposefulness" is a kind of...):

meaningfulness (the quality of having great value or significance)

Antonym:

purposelessness (the quality of lacking any definite purpose)

Derivation:

purposeful (having meaning through having an aim)

purposeful (serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal)